I write web content, scripts, thought leadership, social media campaigns, and more. For more than 12 years, I was a public radio reporter covering health care, social issues, and breaking news for NPR and several NPR member stations, and the Kaiser Health News/NPR collaboration. My superpower is making the complex compelling and approachable. My favorite m.o. is collaboration, though I’m an independent powerhouse. My must-have? A sense of humor.

My journalism has won regional Edward R. Murrow awards, a Metcalf Diversity in Media award, and multiple AP awards. I was honored to be a National Health Journalism Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

I hold an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and earned my BA in anthropology from Lewis & Clark College.

My creative writing has appeared in Off Assignment and McSweeney’s, among others. I also write a Substack called Magic Silver Bullet.

I speak French and Spanish, have lived on three continents, and am also a vocalist, specializing in complex harmonies from the Balkans and Georgia. I play piano and ukulele, which is the world’s happiest instrument. I am a volunteer storyteller for Housing Forward, an organization that fights homelessness. I have two children, a husband, a dog called Buttercup, and live on the best block in the world.